Bio
Susan Still Scott was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and currently lives and works in the Hudson Valley, New York. She earned a Bachelors of Fine Art from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA and attended Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy. While there, she focused on early Renaissance painting and sculpture. Scott received a Masters of Fine Art from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, MA.
Scott’s first solo exhibition in New York City was at Heskin Contemporary in 2011, entitled Corporeality and Other Things of Grace and Beauty. The title references her ongoing visual play with materials combined with carefully considered responses to modern painterly abstraction.
A recipient of residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, Scott has exhibited throughout the United States and in Europe. She has shown at Site:Brookly, NY, The Ice Box Project Space and Vox Populi in Philadelphia, PA, Collarworks, Troy, NY, Equity Gallery, New York, NY, RE-Institute, Millerton, NY, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY, Melanie Carr Gallery, Essex, CT, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA, and John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY.
Statement
I construct paintings that are rooted in the traditions of abstract painting and expanded upon by the material exploration of sculpture. I investigate how materials interact; how processes and formal relationships develop narratives that relate to our lives. While images are predominantly visual, the corporeal presence of an object is primarily felt in the body. I distinguish between image and object in order to investigate and reconcile the fundamentally different experiences of pictorial and sculptural space.
Each construction expresses a distinct character that opens a dialog between my work, the viewer and between the pieces themselves. The colorful exteriors and formal integrity of each piece belie an undercurrent of anxiety with quiet resolve by re-animating and re-contextualizing the physical qualities of used, neglected or damaged materials. Urgency is expressed in quick repairs, ripped edges, and parts that don't quite meet. Structures and processes are both hidden and revealed, as parts are with ourselves. Strategies like these enact emotional and physical states like those that shape, and ultimately determine, our lives.
CV/Bibliography
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Arrows in my Quiver, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY, curated by Julie Torres and Ellen Letcher, April 2024
Righteous Ordinary, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA, April 2013
Swell Spot, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA, January 2012
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY, Summer 2011
Some Other Things, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA, May 2011
Corporeality and Other Things of Grace and Beauty, Heskin Contemporary, New York, NY,
March 2011
Susan Scott, Danforth Museum of Art, curated by Katherine French, Framingham, MA, Fall 2010
Make-do and Mend Again, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA, April 2010
MFA Thesis, Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA, 1998
Selected Group Exhibitions
This is the Future of Non-Objective Art, Atlantic Gallery, curated by Suzan Shutan, New York, NY, February-March 2024
Poetic Gestures, ArtPort Kingston, curated by Laurie De Chiara, Kingston, NY, February-March 2024
New Language: Contemporary Abstraction, Gallery 263, curated by Daniela Rivera, Cambridge, MA, October-November 2023
Going Outside, Sculpture Space Hudson, curated by Dan Devine, Hudson, NY, Summer 2023
Serious Fun, Odetta Digital, curated by Ellen Hackl Fagan, NY, NY, October 2022-January 2023
Mountain High, Valley Low, LABspace, curated by Julie Torres and Ellen Letcher, Hillsdale, NY, June-July 2022
Spinning Plates, Odetta Digital, curated by Ellen Hackl Fagan, NY, NY, January-June 2022
Full Circle, WoArt online exhibition, curated by Christina Massey, December-January 2022
Painting 2011-2021, Site:Brooklyn, online exhibition, curated by Peter Frank, Brooklyn, NY, September-October 2021
Juried Exhibition 2021, Five Points Gallery, curated by Joe Ficigna, Torrington, CT, 2021
SpaceLAB, Collarworks, curated by Julie Torres and Ellens Letcher, Troy, NY, September-October 2020
Object Oriented, Equity Gallery, curated by Anne Russinof, New York, NY, July-August 2019
Earthly Delights, The Re Institute, curated by Susan Jennings, Julie Torres and Ellen Letcher, Millerton, NY, August 2019
Colorforms, LABspace, four person show curated by Julie Torres and Ellen Letcher, Hillsdale, NY, December 2018
Mighty Minis, curated by Suzan Shutan, Souterrain Gallery, West Cornwall, CT July-August 2017 and Melanie Carr Gallery, Essex, CT, February 2018
Finders Keepers, 222 Cabot Gallery, three person show, curated by Kevin Lucey, Beverly, MA, April-May 2017
Machines of Paint, 72 Front St., curated by Jennifer Riley, Brooklyn, NY, September-October 2016
Diphthong, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College, curated by Stephen Maine and Gelah Penn, New York, NY, October-November 2015
The Country Between Us, curated by Ariel Freiberg, New Art Center, Newton, MA, November-December 2014
CONstruct/conSTRUCT: The Organizing Principal, Schiltkamp Gallery, Traina Center for the Arts, Clark University, Worcester, MA, October-November 2013
They, Salle Polyvalente, Parc du Seuil, curated by Roland Orepuk, Sainte Marie D’Alloix, France, February 2012
Textility, Visual Art Center of New Jersey, curated by Joanne Mattera and Mary Birmingham, Summit, NJ, January-April 2012
Boston Does Boston 5, Proof Gallery, with Jennifer Moses, Boston, MA, January 2012
Still, Members' Show, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA, September 2011
Major Grey, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, July 2011
Dialogues---members invite guest artists, with Brenda Goodman, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA, January 2011
Big Bang III, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, December 2010-January 2011
Informal Relations, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Scott Grow, Indianapolis, IN, November 2010
Off The Wall, Danforth Museum of Art, curated by Jen Mergel, Helen Molesworth, Framingham, MA, Summer 2010
Touch Faith, Semantics Gallery, curated by Jeffery Cortland Jones, Cincinnati, OH, 2009
Linked--Small Works, Big Ideas, Heskin Contemporary, curated by Jennifer Riley, New York, NY, March 2009
Victory for Tyler Painters, Ice Box Project Space, curated by Jenelle Porter, Philadelphia, PA, 2007
Both, Green Street Gallery, curated by James Hull, Boston, MA, 2005
The Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts, curated by Bill Arning and Ellen Gallagher, Boston, MA, 2000 and 2002
Salon Redux, Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, curated by Laura Donaldson, Boston, MA, 2001
Salon, Montserrat College of Art Gallery, curated by Laura Donaldson, Beverly, MA, 2001
Constructed Paintings, Mills Gallery, curated by Shelley Bancroft, Boston, MA, 1999
In the Spirit of Drawing, Brickbottom Gallery, curated by Judith Brassard Brown, Somerville, MA, 1998
Informants, Patricia Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA, 1997
National Juried Printmaking Exhibition, John Callahan Gallery, Boston, MA, 1997
Shifting Grounds, Boston printmakers, Boston University, Boston, MA, 1997
Presentations/Panels/Talks
Visiting Lecturer, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, 2020
Panel Discussion, The Country Between Us, New TV public access station, Newton, MA, 2014Artists' Discussion, Art Center of New Jersey, Textility, Summit, NJ, 2012
Heskin Contemporary, Corporeality... of Grace and Beauty, New York, NY, March 2011
Green Street Gallery, Both, Boston, MA, 2005
Residencies/Fellowships
MacDowell Visual Artist Fellowship, Peterborough, NH, January 1999
Bibliography
Susan Still Scott, Artist's Talk, Montserrat Galleries, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pGj2ZN_T-c
"The Ghost in the Machine: Diphthong at the Fiterman", by John Mendelsohn, 2015
https://artcritical.com/2015/10/05/john-mendelsohn-on-diphthong/
"Linda Leslie Brown Interviews Susan Still Scott: Some Questions About 'Righteous Ordinary'", 2013
"Have You Met Susan Still Scott?", Painter's Progress, by Stephen B. MacInness, 2013
"Textility", Art Blog by Joanne Mattera, 2012
"Textility: Idiosyncratic Materiality....", Two Coats of Paint, by Sharon Butler, 2012
“Featured Artist: Susan Still Scott”, Making the Art Seen, by Sand T. Kalloch, 2012
“Susan Scott at John Davis Gallery”, Anaba, by Martin Bromirski, 2011
"Susan S. Scott, Boston Artist", Lynette Haggard Artist Interviews, 2011 http://lynettehaggard.blogspot.com/2011/02/susan-s-scott-boston-artist.html
Studio Visit Magazine, Published by Open Studios Press, juried by Steven Zevitas, 2010
Off the Wall... by Cate McQuaid. The Boston Globe, March 18, 1999
Mills Show... by Mary Sherman, The Boston Herald, February 28, 1999
Constructed Paintings... by Christopher Millis, South End News, March 11, 1999
Education
MFA, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA